SUMMARY

• Highly technical energetic leader with over 20 years of experience. Sucessful in implementing and supporting enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and security standards in alignment with corporate strategy. Diverse knowledge across multiple platforms including network, storage and compute technologies. Responsible for forcasting and budgeting infrastructure lifecycle management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• BUDGET
• FINANCIALS
• ARCHITECTURE
• STRATEGY
• COLLABORATION
• CAPACITY PLANNING
• CHANGE MANAGEMENT
• PROJECT LEADERSHIP
• MENTORING
• TRAINING
• INFRASTRUCTURE
• IBM - Power
• EMC Storage
• IBM Storage
• Brocade Fabric
• Cisco Catalyst
• Cisco Nexus
• HP - Intel
• Data Domain
• VIRTUALIZATION
• VMWare vCenter
• LPAR
• SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
• Storage
• Unix
• Linux
• AIX
• Shell Scripting
• BACKUP / RECOVERY
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
• EMC Networker
• EMC Avamar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Unix team lead

Responsibilities:

• Continue to be promoted to positions of additional responsibility
• Interim manager for the team after the previous manager retired. Provided team leadership and direction as passed down from senior management.
• Develop vendor relationships for procurement of services and hardware. Negotiate changing vendors for HW / SW support generating an annual savings of $1.3M
• Lead the team to implement new architecture direction into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Team lead of system administrators in various technologies including VMWare, Storage, SAN, Linux and Unix administration
• Collaborate with the architecture and strategy team to meet and deliver enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with dev/ops teams to implement CI/CD dockerized environments to deliver modern applications and microservices.
• Designed and implemented on premises IaaS environments
• Mentor and train fellow system administrators
• Developed and implemented lifecycle and capacity planning of server, SAN and storage infrastructure.
• Datacenter capacity planning for server and storage placement
• Develop and implement standards for storage and server infrastructure
• Architect solutions for system migrations on P - series hardware
• Lead project migration of legacy hardware, networking and unix environments to new infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Responsible for planning and implementing hardware consolidation to reduce cost.
• Lead a cross op-co cloud guild to design standards for cloud compartment design in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Identify consolidation opportunities at colocation facilities to reduce costs.
• Drive network conversion project from Cisco Catalyst to Cisco Nexus Core and edge switches.
• Support daily operations and availability of enterprise applications

Confidential

Senior AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter planning and design for server placement for primary and col-location facilities
• Lifecycle management of server, SAN and storage infrastructure
• Architect, design and implement N-series / Netapp filers running OnTap 7-mode
• Install. Configure Operations Manager, Data Fabric Manager for Operational reporting and performance reporting and event alerting.
• Setup and configure v-filers for filer service centralization projects.
• Install, and configure Open Systems Snapvault (OSSV) for data migration of file services
• Install and configure IBM N-series filers for CIFS and NFS protocols
• Setup and configure disk aggregates and volumes per best practices
• Configure de-duplication using A-sis both in-line and scheduled.
• Setup and maintain NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault configurations and replication
• Set up snap shot backup schedules and retention to meet RPO and RTO requirements
• Perform AIX system administration (install, configure, migrate and patch of AIX 5L Operating systems; AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. 6.1 and 7.1; LPARS)
• Setup and configure AIX LPARS on IBM HMC's
• Install and configure VIO servers and resources to AIX LPARs
• Perform SAN disk and fabric admin, switch configuration, zoning - firmware updates
• Perform Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup and maintain TSM server and clients
• Monitor and maintain disaster recovery practice within TSM - DRM
• Troubleshoot AIX, SAN, TSM and disk problems to resolution
• Provide technical project leadership during application install and configuration, acting as liaison between IT and the business team for enterprise applications: Hyperion Financials and Sun Identify Management (IDM)
• Interface with the architecture team to ensure corporate standards are followed
• Schedule changes according to the corporate change management policies
• Install and configure ESX servers running VMware v4.1
• Installs RHEL as vmware guests
• Support VMware SRM for virtual environments.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant, Senior AIX System Administrator and TSM Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design IT infrastructure solutions working with senior management team
• Work with vendors to schedule presentations and proof of concept solutions
• Perform system administration tasks for AIX and Linux machines.
• Administer and upgrade Tivoli Storage Manager running on AIX
• Assist in Windows Server 2003 administration and upgrade from Novell Servers
• Backup DB2 administrator, automate, startup, shutdown and backup scripts for DB2
• Install and configure SAN switches including zoning
• Assist the installation and configuration of enterprise applications
• Perform disk storage management using DS4000 storage devices